Brood X 2021 Webquest
1.
What is a cicada? How would you differentiate
between annual and periodical cicadas?
2.
Are they dangerous to people, pets or plants?
3.
What is a periodical cicada brood? What does the term “17 Year
Magicicada Brood II” mean?
4.
How is the life cycle of a periodical cicada different from the life cycle
of annual cicadas? How is it similar?
5.
What do scientists know about how cicada nymphs keep track of time
underground? Describe how experiments with trees in greenhouses under
shortened daylight cycles are helping scientists understand how cicadas
keep track of time.
6.
What are the nymphs doing during that time underground?
7.
What is the history of periodical cicada emergence in your region, if any?
8.
Whom could you interview about what it was like to be part of periodical
cicada emergence in the past?
9.
How far back in local history can you find documentation of cicada
emergence? How did your local newspaper cover it?
10.
What can you learn about the emergence of cicadas in the past?
11.
What have scientists learned about cicadas over the years? How did people
in 1894 use the cicadas they found?